Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company completed spring sugarcane planting.

Fast growing thanks to mechanization

In the 2020-2021 sugarcane crop, Mr. Nguyen Huu Long's family in Hamlet 10, Nghia Dong Commune continued to plant 6.2 hectares of sugarcane in Bai Soi area, bringing the family's total sugarcane area to nearly 9 hectares. Although the price of raw sugarcane has been low for the past 2 years, thanks to the focus on intensive investment and mechanization in production, sugarcane productivity still reached 90 to 100 tons/ha, bringing a significant source of income for the family.

This year, Mr. Long continued to rent land from some households in the village to plant an additional 6.2 hectares with high-yield, good-quality varieties such as LK92-11 and KK3. By using machinery from land preparation to planting, in just 1 week, the family covered the entire area.

Mr. Long said: "Now people are growing sugarcane much better because everything from planting to harvesting is done by machine. This year, my family planted 6.2 hectares of sugarcane. If we hire workers, we don't know how many days it will take, especially during the Covid-19 epidemic, it is very difficult to hire workers."

Mr. Nguyen Huu Long's family in Nghia Dong commune grows sugarcane by machine, so they have closed 6.2 hectares. Photo: Cam Tu

Nghia Dong commune currently has 172 hectares of concentrated sugarcane growing area. This is the first locality in Tan Ky district to do well in land consolidation and plot exchange, thus creating large model fields, allocating and planning specialized areas for crops, facilitating the introduction of machinery into production, investing in care, so productivity is higher than the average of Tan Ky district, typically sugarcane is 15-20 quintals higher/ha. At this time, the local government is directing people to close 52 hectares of newly planted sugarcane area and the area of ​​sugarcane with 3rd year stumps now replanted.

"In recent years, sugarcane has been one of the main crops of the locality. The local government has strongly directed investment in intensive cultivation and applied large-scale fields, so the yield has reached from 90 to more than 100 tons/ha, so people still have a significant source of income from sugarcane. People are actively planting 52 hectares of newly planted and replanted areas."

Mr. Nguyen Duy Hien - Chairman of People's Committee of Nghia Dong Commune, Tan Ky District

This spring, Tan Ky district plans to plant 2,000 hectares of new sugarcane. So far, 1,230 hectares have been planted, of which 826 hectares are planted by machines in the communes of Tan Xuan, Giai Xuan, Nghia Dong, Tan Hop, Dong Van, Nghia Hoan... These are localities that have planned concentrated sugarcane growing areas with a scale of 50 hectares or more. The main varieties that people have put into cultivation are LK92-11 and KK3.

Accompanying farmers
Accompanying farmers is Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company, which in recent years has had many policies and mechanisms to support sugarcane growers as well as agricultural product consumption. Mr. Nguyen Sy Hai - Head of Raw Material Area Development Department of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company said: The company still maintains support policies such as supporting farmers to plant the autumn-winter crop with 3,000,000 VND/ha; Supporting planting SJC2 sugarcane variety with 4,500,000 VND/ha; Supporting 10 tons of sugarcane sludge/ha for new planting areas. Supporting interest-free land rental loans to accumulate land. Supporting 100% interest on loans for materials such as fertilizers, lime, and pesticides".

Tan Ky farmers take care of sugarcane trees. Photo: Cam Tu

New this year, Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company has introduced machines to harvest sugarcane for Tan Ky farmers, thus shortening the harvest time as well as reducing production costs. Especially for areas with roots from the third year onwards, it is convenient to harvest quickly so that they can be destroyed in time to make way for replanting.

Planting sugarcane with machines overcomes the problem of not being able to hire workers during the pandemic. On average, one machine can plant 2 hectares of sugarcane per day. Photo: PV

Currently, along with manual sugarcane planting, for the total area of ​​1,135 hectares of concentrated sugarcane planting, households have coordinated with Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company to put Kubota multi-purpose sugarcane planting machines and tillage machines into production, helping people to free up labor and the sugarcane planting capacity reaches 2 hectares/day.

The cost of renting a sugarcane planting machine per hectare is 3 million VND, half the cost of manual planting, contributing to speeding up the spring sugarcane planting progress in Tan Ky district. With the current progress, Tan Ky district is striving to complete the planting and replanting of 2,000 hectares of spring sugarcane by early April.

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